CIS Men's Basketball ☰

2009-10 QSSF major awards and all-stars announced

Mar 04, 2010

PHOTO BY ANDREW DOBROWOLSKYJ

MONTREAL - The Quebec Student Sport Federation (QSSF) announced
today its major award winners and all-star teams in men's
university basketball.

McGill University's Matthew Thornhill
(Île Bizard, Que.) has been selected as the Quebec University
Basketball League (QUBL) player of the year for the 2009-10 season.
Playing most of the season with a broken nose, Thornhill never
missed a beat finishing first in league scoring with an average of
18.3 points per game. The fourth year finance student was second in
the conference in three-point field goal percentage (45.8%)
averaging 2.4 buckets per game from beyond the arc. He was equally
impressive from the charity stripe, finishing the campaign third
among all players in free-throw shooting percentage at 79.3%.

His teammate Olivier Bouchard* of Montreal
earns the nod as the QSSF men's basketball rookie of the year. The
shortest player on the Redmen squad at 5'10", Bouchard overcame
concerns about his size to find a place in the starting rotation
for McGill. The former Montmorency College Nomades player finished
his inaugural season with 9.9 points per game and 3.7 assists. The
management student drained 39.8% of his field goal attempts, went
34.8% from beyond the three-point line and drained 79.6% of his
free throws.

Éric Côté-Kougnima
(Gatineau, Que.) of the UQAM Citadins is the unanimous choice for
defensive player of the year. The former Cégep de
l'Outaouais standout was third in the conference in steals with 29
and ninth overall in blocked shots with eight (8).

Earning the nod as the QUBL men's basketball coach of the year
is Olga Hrycak, who guided her team to a regular
season conference crown posting an 11-5 record. In her seventh year
as bench boss of the Citadins, Hrycak is looking to parlay the
regular season dominance into the school's first appearance at the
CIS Final 8 since the 2006 tournament.